John Lunzer
Mission Software Engineer at Anduril Industries
Clarksburg, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Lunzer is a mission-focused software engineer with 11 years of expertise in imaging science and remote sensing, currently integrating ISR and satellite imagery into Anduril’s Lattice platform. He combines deep technical knowledge of EO/IR and SAR pipelines, JPEG2000/NITF formats, and scalable Python/AWS processing with practical experience deploying real-time, resource-constrained systems. At L3Harris he led a team building automated, Slurm-backed processing chains for hundreds of terabytes of imagery, and his open-source contributions include backend enhancements to popular Python tools like Leo Editor and xonsh that improve file handling and shell history management. Known for strong soft skills and small-team leadership, he excels at turning research-grade algorithms into operational capabilities and has a track record of novel solutions to bandwidth and format constraints.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0 at University of PortsmouthMaster's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.6, Master's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.6 at University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
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Github Skills (24)
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xonsh10
outliner10
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command-line-interface9
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fileio9
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version-control8
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
xonsh/xonsh
May 2016 - Jun 2016
:shell: Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 112 comments in 23 days
Contributions summary:John contributed to the core functionality of the xonsh shell, focusing on history management and related utilities. Their commits involved enhancements to the history feature, specifically incorporating the ability to read history from locked files and fixing sorting issues. Additionally, they integrated and improved the history-all feature, allowing users to access history from all sessions. The user's work primarily revolved around modifying Python code within the history and related modules of the xonsh project.
unixiterm2pythonsystem-administrationxonsh
leo-editor/leo-editor
Apr 2015 - Apr 2016
Leo is an Outliner, Editor, IDE and PIM written in 100% Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 6 PRs, 17 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:John's contributions primarily involve enhancing the functionality of the Leo editor. They added support for importing bash files and modified the core application to handle different file extensions and modes. A significant portion of their work focuses on the `active_path.py` plugin, adding features for per-file/folder inclusion/exclusion, which improved file system interaction. The user also made general improvements and bug fixes to the codebase.
pythonsqlite3ideeditorleo
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